The Great Thooth is the highest aspect of the Hermaes
of the most ancient Egiptian Mysteries, and corresponds almost to the Great
Angel Metatron.It is the Archangel
of Kether in the Briatic World.The
Mercury of the Romans must not be confused with this Great Hermes.

The doctrines of Gnosticism
and of Valentinus approached those of the pure Qabalah. In them we find Speech
and Silence. Across the Abyss of Silence comes the Primal Speech. The Divine
Ones here referred to are the A eons in the Atziluthic World. These formulae of
knowledge are designed in terms cognizable to us in the lower
world.

Eheieh —
implicit and
explicit sound. “Every being pronounces all its existence, the Name of the Lord
of Life, by inspiration and expiration.”

Macroprosopus is Aima and
Abba, Mother —
Father. The two
nostrils pass up and down the two breaths, as through the two Great Pillars.
These

throw all things into
vibration; compare the Rashith ha-Gilgalim. Piercing of the Dragon’s Coils
suggests the freeing of Malkuth, which is also referred to as the Washing of the
Garments of the

Queen, the Inferior Mother.
Then comes the Breaking Forth of the Light. Over Malkuth as Guardians are
Metatron and Sandalphon as the Two Pillars, and Nephesch ha-Messiah, the animal
soul of Messiah, the Shekinah or Pre­sence between the
Kerubim.

THE
PARTICULAR EXORDIUM

The Borniess Ones of Time
referred to are those coruscations of the Divine Light which are above Kether of
Atziluth.In such Supernal Realms,
the Ain Soph, though negative to us, is there intensely positive. Thence came
forth the Gods, the Voice, the Aeons, and the Name.

The Egyptian Gods are
generally most differentiated by their Crowns:

Amen-Ra by the high
feathers, Mo-ooth (Maut) has the same headdress as Horns. She corresponds to
Aima Elohim. The high Hermes-Tho-oth has the same headdress as Amoun Kneph, the
Sacred Spirit. Remember that Tho­oth, Truth, has two aspects —
the higher and
the lower. The higher is Absolute, the lower is suitable to human comprehension.
To tell the higher form of a truth to one who cannot understand it is to lie to
him because, though correctly formulated, it will not be correctly
received.

The Forms of Thmaah.
There are
four forms of spelling for the Goddess Thma-Est whereby she is attributable to
the Four Letters of the Name, and therewith to the Elements and the
Tree.

Water. Binah. Heh.Fire. Chokmah. Yod.

Thma-oe-TtThma-oe-Sh

Air. Tiphareth. Vau.Earth. Malkuth. Heh.

Thm-a-oe-St(final) Thm-a-Oe

(The
Middle Pillar)

In the Equinox Ceremony, the
Hegemon is Air, Spirit, and the principal officer. She reconciles from East to
West, and from North to South, and in a circular formulae